161. Shirakawa, K. Takaichi, H. Yagi, J. -F. Bisson, J. Lu, M. Musha, K. Ueda, T. Yanagitani, T. Petrov and A. Kaminskii, Diode-pumped mode-locked Yb3+:Y2O3 ceramic laser, Optics Express, 11 (No. 22), pp. 2911 – 2916

162. L. Pramatarova, E. Pecheva, D. Nesheva, Z. Levi, Z. Aneva, R. Pramatarova, U. Bismayer and T.Petrov, Study of modified solid surfaces by nanostructured CdSe in SiOx thin films, Physica Status Solidi (C), 0003 (No. 1)

163. T. Halfmann, T. Rickes, N. Vitanov and K. Bergmann, Lineshapes in coherent two-photon excitation, Opt. Commun. 220, 353-359

164. S. Marienfeld, Y. Pashayan, N. Vitanov, B. Shore, H. Hotop, and K. Bergmann, Influence of laserbandwidth and transit time on the excitation probability of a rovibrational two-level system, J. Chem. Phys. 119, 5069-5077

165. N. Vitanov, L. Yatsenko and K. Bergmann, Population transfer by amplitude-modulated pulse, Phys. Rev. A 68, 043401

166. L. Yatsenko, B. Shore, N. Vitanov and K. Bergmann, Retroreflection-induced bichromaticadiabatic passage, Phys. Rev. A 68, 043405

167. F. Vewinger, M. Heinz, R. Garcia Fernandez, N. Vitanov and K. Bergmann, Creation and measurement of coherent superposition of quantum states, Phys. Rev. Lett. 91, 213001

168. N. Vitanov, Z. Kis and B. Shore, Coherent excitation of a degenerate two-level system by an elliptically polarized laser pulse, Phys. Rev. A 68, 063414 

169. A. Bogaerts and M. Grozeva, Effect of helium/argon gas ratio in a He-Ar-Cu+ IR hollow cathode discharge laser: Modeling study and comparison with experiments, Appl. Phys. B, Lasers and Optics 76 (2003) 299-306, [DOI 10.1007/s00340-002-1093-3 - online publication: March 19, 2003]

170. N. Sabotinov, Recent progress in copper vapor lasers, invited paper, Proceedings of SPIE Vol. 5120 XIV International Symposium on Gas Flow, Chemical Lasers, and High-Power Lasers, edited by Krysztof M. Abramski, Edward F. Plinski, Wieslaw Wolinski, (SPIE, Bellingham, WA, 2003), 30-37

171. M. Grozeva, A. Bogaerts, R. Gijbels and N. Sabotinov, Investigation of laser output power saturation in the He-Cu+ IR hollow cathode discharge laser by experiments and numerical modeling, Physica. Scripta T105, 90-97

172. N. Vuchkov, K. Temelkov, P. Zahariev and N. Sabotinov, Spectral and spatial characteristics of UV Cu+ laser excited in a nanosecond pulsed longitudinal Ne-CuBr discharge, Proceed. SPIE, vol. 5226, pp. 44-48

173. D. Mihailova, M. Grozeva, A. Bogaerts, R. Gijbels and N. Sabotinov, Longitudinal hollow cathode copper ion laser: optimization of excitation and geometry, Proceed. SPIE, vol. 5226, pp. 49-53

174. G. Todorov, N. Sabotinov, P. Telbizov, L. Petrov, D. Slavov, V. Arsov and Z. Yordanova, Laser-induced galvanic signals from Se, Ar, and Ne ion transitions in a hollow cathode discharge, Proceed. SPIE, vol. 5226, pp. 159-163

175. I. Balchev, N. Minkovski, N. Sabotinov and I. Kostadinov, Micromachining with copper bromide laser, Proceed. SPIE, vol. 5226, pp. 372-376 

176. I. Balchev, N. Minkovski, K. Dimitrov and N Sabotinov, High-precision machining with copper bromide laser, ILLA/LTL’2003 Intern. Conference and Symposium, Smolyan, Bulgaria, September 2003, Technical Digest, Section 2, p. 22 

177. N. Sabotinov, Development of deep ultraviolet metal vapor lasers, III International conference and symposium, “Laser technologies and lasers”, ILLA/LTL’2003 Intern. Conference and Symposium, Smolyan, Bulgaria, September 2003, Technical Digest, Section 2, p. 44 

178. N. Sabotinov, Development of new high power CuBr lasers, III International conference and symposium, “Laser technologies and lasers”, ILLA/LTL’2003 Intern. Conference and Symposium, Smolyan, Bulgaria, September 2003, Technical Digest, Section 2, p. 62 

179. I. Iliev, S. Gocheva and N. Sabotinov, On the stability of radiofrequency discharge, ILLA/LTL’2003 Intern. Conference and Symposium, Smolyan, Bulgaria, September 2003, Technical Digest, Posters, p. 73 

180. M. Grozeva, D. Mihailova, N. Sabotinov, A. Bogaerts and R. Gijbels, Effect of cathode length on the excitation efficiency of a sputtering hollow cathode copper ion laser, ILLA/LTL’2003 Intern. Conference and Symposium, Smolyan, Bulgaria, September 2003, Technical Digest, Section 2, p. 76 

181. N. Vuchkov, K. Temelkov, P. Zahariev and N. Sabotinov, A new laser tube construction for the UV Cu+ laser, ILLA/LTL’2003 Intern. Conference and Symposium, Smolyan, Bulgaria, September 2003, Technical Digest, Section 2, p. 90